Dismantling Racism: A Resource Book for Social Change Groups

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This resource book is a compilation of materials designed to supplement a Dismantling Racism workshop. Because this resource book is never complete please download the latest version from the Western States Center's website. The version here was downloaded on 15 August 2017.

The pages you see here change regularly based on the feedback and critical thinking or workshop participants and others who use them.

The contents include:

The Context of Dismantling Racism Work 4
A Philosophy of Reform 5
Diversity Training: Good for Business but Insufficient for Social Change 6
Dismantling Racism Training Assumptions 9
Developing a Shared Language and Analysis 10
Not Vanishing 11
A History: The Construction of Race and Racism 12
The Common Elements of Oppression / Terms and Definitions 26
Models for Understanding how racism works 37
From Internalized Racist Oppression to Empowerment 40
The Impact of Internalized Racist Oppression on our Community 41
Poems: Martín Espada 42
Ladder of Empowerment 44

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